Record soy plantings seen weighing on prices, WSJ saysAnalysts expect soybean acreage to rise 3% from last year to 85.9M acres and corn to fall 2% to 88.7M acres, according to a survey by The Wall Street Journal taken ahead of a U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast due Tuesday. Many are betting that further soy production increases will trigger steep declines in futures, the report noted. Publicly traded companies in the agriculture and fertilizers space include Agrium (AGU), Andersons (ANDE), Archer Daniels (ADM), Bunge (BG), CF Industries (CF), Compass Minerals (CMP), DuPont (DD), Intrepid Potash (IPI), Monsanto (MON), Mosaic (MOS), Potash (POT) and Syngenta (SYT). Reference Link

Canpotex undercut by Belaruskali deal with China, FT reportsBelarus' state-owned fertilizer group, Belaruskali, has agreed to sell its potash to Chinese buyers at $315 a tonne for the first half of 2015, which is well below market prices which are currently about $330-$340 a tonne, said Financial Times, noting that Canpotex, the offshore marketing company jointly owned by Agrium (AGU), Mosaic (MOS), and Potash Corp. (POT), had been holding out for higher prices with the Chinese. Reference Link